Word: arceo
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...title of praise for the Virgin, such as "Mediatrix" between man and God. Some Latin American prelates warned that current excesses of devotion to Mary were a scandal to those outside the church and tended to obscure Christ's unique mediation with God. Mexican Bishop Sergio Mendez Arceo dryly pointed out that if Mary were to be titled "Mother of the Church," which is the mother of men, she becomes everybody's grandmother. And Augustin Cardinal Bea, of the Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity, argued that any title implying a new Marian doctrine would do grave harm...
...Teresa Arceo threaded her way through the labyrinthian corridors of a government building in Mexico City to the appropriate office, where her son Luis was to take his examination for a radio-television announcer's license. In the absence of a baby sitter, the anxious mother brought along her baby daughter Janette as well. During the interview, the overtrained Luis muffed some of the questions; but his precocious, farina-fed sister belted out the answers in such clear, bell-like show-biz tones that the licensing board turned from the eleven-year-old Luis and licensed Janette, making...
...cereal and children's medicines. Since then Janette, now 4, has piled up enough pesos to buy a small farm, where she languishes weekends with the aplomb of a Hollywood starlet, tending her flocks of ducks and chickens and her pet pig. Janette's father, Agustin Arceo, a salesman of auto lubricants, objects to all this, but is solidly outnumbered by the rest of the' family (Luis, now 13, has also received his announcer's license...
...public opinion, which objects to the trend toward young TV and radio performers as both an esthetic annoyance and a violation of Mexico's child labor law. The consensus is that the piping of all the lisping little pitch people will soon be dialed out, and that Janette Arceo will retire to her farm for a while. A recently passed law requires all radio and television announcers in Mexico to hold a high school diploma...